Nature in ornament; an enquiry into the natural element in ornamental design & a survey of the ornamental treatment of natural forms (1902)
Day, Lewis Foreman, 1845-1910 · London, B. T. Batsford · leaf 374
indesign the claims at once of nature and ofornament so evenly balanced as they are here.The straight lines of the stems, for instance,are characteristically natural; but by the direc-tion they are made to take in the design theygive diagonal bands, which fulfil a distinctdecorative purpose,… … Pboto-Tiht iy James Akerman Lonion.W.C CbiDGse Lotus PorcglaiD PaiT)tir)6 . Treatment, 171 The balance between natural form andornamental design is sometimes very evenly-adjusted in Chinese art. In Plate 88, for ex-ample, forms of leaf and flower are given withconsiderable fidelity to nature. The…
Decoration and ornament · Nature (Esthetics)
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